The Communists, the Congress and the Anti-Colonial Movement Bipan Chandra Mridula Mukherjee Sashi Joshi Aditya Mukherjee Bhagwan Josh Lajpat Jagga SUMANTA BANERJEE's review of "The Indian Left" (EPW, February 18, 1984) needs to be rebutted for several reasons; he has; often misrepresented or distorted what the authors represented in the book have said; what is more important, in other instances, despite his bantering tone and the inadequacy of historical knowledge, a serious argument is involved which deserves to be carried forward, for some of the major weaknesses of the left today lie in its polities and theory
